Local artist Kathy Waldo is the October artist-in-residence at the Cedarburg Cultural Center.

Waldo is a self-taught artist who also enjoys taking local art classes. She became an artist later in life after realizing one spring morning that she needed to create by painting.

She uses cold wax, oils, acrylics, mixed media and alcohol inks in her work and says her love of learning and testing the limits of each medium has been her muse. Most recently she has focused on alcohol ink paintings.

Sesame was my garden experiment this year and the time has come for the harvest. I don’t have an industrial, no-crack variety so the process may be a little prolonged. But so far I have a crop, and at times this summer that outcome seemed in doubt.

There are more than 3,000 mosquito species worldwide, and only a few places, like Iceland and Antarctica, are free of them.

Notice Port Washington isn’t on the mosquito-free list.

They’ve been plaguing most of the creatures on earth for more than 100 million years since they’re equal opportunity pests that feed on reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and even fish if part of one sticks out of the water.

The Department of Natural Resources says we have a modest 56 species in Wisconsin, and they’re buzzing around town after the recent flooding.